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Show Cuapr. 65. Theatrum Botanicum. T ripe 2. Tare nti 3+ Althea vo/ea peregrina. 1. Althea vulgaris. 9. Althea paluftris Cytiniflore. —— OEY i 7 Vans d of Cuar.65. Althea fratex.. Shsubbie marth Mallow, Ked flowred marth Mallow. : The ftrange marth Mallow Rofe, Ordinary marth Mallow Tho TheateropPikes 2 \\ WN ys Ht ) Xt! i i ig, Althea lutea five Abutilon Avicenite puratums Yellow marfh Mallow. 6. Abutiton Indicuva Camerarii. i Camerarivs his white Indian marfh Mallow, 5. Althea luteafive Abutilon Avicenne putatim, Yellow marth Mallow. The yellow Mallow or marth Mallow rifeth up with one foft woolly greene round {talke for the moft part,and feldome with more; divided oftentimes even from the bottomeinto divers branches:at every joynt ftand feverall large round leaves as foft as Velvet, pointed atthe ends, and dented about the edges, hanging downeat the end oflong ftalkes, which ftand forth right ; the lowers {tand fimgly but one at a joynt with the leafe, which is {mall and yellow, compofed offive {mall pointed leaves; ftanding ina {mall greene huske, which being paft, there fucceede Loft greene pods or feede veffcls, turning blacke whenthey are ripe, compofed of many {mall hornes or pods,fet together like unto an head or feede veflell of Fraxinella, in every one whereof is conteyned {mall blacke roundifh feede: the roote is not great nor long,but with diversfibres atit, and perifheth every yeare, 6. Abutilon Indicum Camerary, \ ' eC \ ) VY ANEW) SVAELL f) Se \ty/\ SYWYby ff = eKNON Camerarius his white Indian marfh Mallow- This Indian marth Mallowrifech up with an upright ftraight hairyftalke, (hooting from the joyntsindivers places {mall branches, whereat likewife are fet {uch like foft round and pointed leaves,as are inthe laft hanging downwards for the moft part, at the end of long ftalkes which are fomewhat hairie alfo: the flowers ftand in the fame manner that the other doe,but are fomewhat larger, and of a white colour, and yellow at the bottome, with divers threds in the middle : the roote is full of {mall fibres, and perifheth every yeare, in the like manner, 7. Althea paluftris Cytini flore) Red flowred marth Mallow: The red flowréd marfh Mallow {endeth forth many foft leaves, fomewhat like unto thofe of the ordinary matth Mallow, butnotfo foft or whitifh, but of a pale greenecolouronthe upperfide, and whiter underneath longeralfo and dented fomewhat deeper about the edges, ftanding upon long footeltalkes, among which rife up divers roundgreene ftalkes, three or foure foote high, bearing the like leaves onthem at feverall diftances : from the joynts ofthe leaves towards the tops ofthe ftalkes, and at the tops ofthem likewife come forth the flowers, confilting of five leayeslonger and narrower then in other Mallowes, not broad but pointed ar the ¢nds, of a deepe reddith purple colour, tending toan orenge, and fomerimes paler or more delayed, and in fomeplants of a white colour, with divers threds ftanding in the middle, about a {mall greene head, which in time becommeth the feede veflel, growing like the cod or feede veffel of the Birthwort, of a fad brownifh colour on the outfide, parting intofive divifions, wherein lye {mall brownithfeede: the roote is long, white and tough, fomewhatlikea marth Mallow, butnothing fo great, or Muccilaginous,that is (lymie, 8, Althea arbore{cens Provincialis, Tree marth Mallow ofFrance, This tree marth Mallowis very like unto the Shrubbe Mallow, fet-forth in my former booké, bnt yet is not the fame, differing in fome notable points from it : for although the ftemmes thereof are more wooddy’ then , the former tree Mallow; yet are they not altogether fo hard and woodyas the fhrub Mallow, but groweth much higher, even toa mans height fometimes, having many whitifh hoarie leaves in the naturall places, bat ofa whitifh greene growingin our climate and nor hoary atall, fomewhat rough,broad and round, and nor {0 long pointed as the Shrubbe Mallow,yet cut in into fome es dented at the edges; at the pede Dd 3 the 305 |